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Governor Brown has signed two bills into law. SB 335 (Hernandez) extends a hospital fee to increase funding for Medi-Cal through 2013 and ABX 1 21 (Blumenfeld) extends a fee on Medi-Cal managed care plans for another year. SB 335 is estimated to generate $2.2B in fee revenue paid by… more

The legislative session ended on September 9. Lawmakers passed various health-related bills which are now on the Governor’s desk. The Governor has until October 9 to either veto or sign these bills. SB 946 (Steinberg): Requires private health plans to cover treatment for children with autism. Exempts Medi-Cal and Healthy… more

April was a busy month for the Senate Health Committee and Assembly Health Committee. Both took action on myriad bills related to health policy and ACA implementation. Here’s a brief rundown… SB 703 (Hernandez) would create the ACA’s Basic Health Plan as an alternative for individuals between 133% and 200%… more

Although signing into law the Exchange Bills and other important health care legislation, yesterday the Governor vetoed a number of health care related bills. These include: • SB 890 (Alquist) which would have reformed the individual insurance market by setting basic benefit levels and classifying health plans into tiers, allowing… more

In addition to signing into law the Health Benefit Exchange bills, the Governor also signed a number of very significant bills that work to both protect patients and begin implementation health care reform in California. Here is a quick summary of what was signed over the past two days: AB… more

In addition to passing AB 1602 (Perez) & SB 900 (Alquist/Steinberg), California’s monumental Health Benefit Exchange bills, the state Legislature also passed a series of important healthcare bills this year, many of which directly implement or are closely related to implementation of federal health reform. Each of the bills below… more

Tomorrow, September 30th, is the constitutional deadline by which Governor Schwarzenegger must sign or veto any bills that the Legislature passed this year. Two of the most talked-about pieces of legislation still on the Governor’s desk are SB 900 (Steinberg) and AB 1602 (Perez), sister bills that would establish the… more

The Governor has until September 30th (just two days away!) to decide whether or not to sign into law more than a dozen health care bills sitting on his desk. Arguably, the most significant of these are SB 900 (Alquist & Steinberg) and AB 1602 (Perez), sister bills that would… more